Holiday Beach is just east of Windsor, Ont. Kevin Money is the director of conservation areas for the Essex Regional Conservation Association.

"This is a great opportunity for us to try to promote Holiday Beach in terms of the whole hawk migration and just in teaching people about the natural environment in general," Money said. "To be No. 3 is actually quite an honour."

Thousands of hawks fly over and through Holiday Beach each year as they migrate south.

"The whole reason we have a three-storey viewing tower there is because we know the hawks fly,"Money said. "So we built infrastructure around that to draw people in to allow them to watch that."

Holiday Beach is the only Canadian location featured in the list, which includes places as far south as Panama.